Fundraising Officer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Mustard Tree

Mustard Tree

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Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Fundraising Officer

Responsible To:
Fundraising Manager

Working Hours:37.5

Duration:
Permanent Full Time

Salary:
£25,016

Location:
Onsite

Overview

Mustard Tree is a Greater Manchester charity that creates opportunities for people and communities to help themselves through practical support, life skills and connections into work.

We focus on tackling the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality, and homelessness, seeing over 10,000 visits every month.

As the charity develops to meet growing need, there is an exciting opportunity to join our Fundraising Team.

We are looking for a driven, passionate, and organised individual to enable Mustard Tree's mission through helping the Fundraising Team grow our awareness, partnerships, and income.

Role Purpose

This role is responsible for the smooth running of Mustard Tree's Corporate Partnership income stream, growing and stewarding a cohort of donors, partners, and organisations, supporting with planning and development, events, and presentations.

It will involve building personable relationships with businesses, donor interaction, inbox management, and planning.

This role would suit a energetic, confident individual who has experience in sales, public speaking, stewardship, stakeholder management and has a desire to grow and develop within the charity.

What you'll be doing:

Partnership, Development, and Donor Stewardship

Active relationship management and stewardship for our current Corporate Partners.
Qualifying & contacting potential partners; hyperlocal, local, GMwide, and national businesses.
Overseeing daytoday corporate incomings; logging, thanking donors and informing staff.
Travelling externally for meetings, networking events and presentations and hosting tours & chats.
Working with the Volunteer Manager to book & host corporate partnership volunteering days.
Overseeing signups to Mustard Tree's 'mass participation events', I.E Tough Mudder, the Great Manchester Run and working with Fundraising Administrator to steward those donors.

Administration

Managing personal inbox and calendar effectively.
Accounting for and assigning cash, activity, and outcomes to specific partners, chasing expected income if/when required.
Working with Fundraising Administration to enter data, pull information, manage individual and corporate profiles on our CRM System.
Building briefs and 'decks' of corporate partners, including commitments, funds raised, activities, events participation, volunteering.
Proactively updating, reaching out to and engaging with existing partners to develop the relationship, I.E with newsletters.

Social Media & Communication

Working with the Fundraising & Communications teams to plan social media briefings, content, calendars, and events.
Supporting the daytoday management of Corporate & Community interactions and engagement across social media.
Supporting the establishment and running of additional internal communications, I.E Teams.

General Responsibilities

Taking responsibility for personal and professional development.
Being articulate and confident, able to work effectively in challenging situations.
Joining the Fundraising Team at events if and when required.
Performing other tasks and duties relevant to the role as required by the organisation, including potentially providing relevant cover, support, and response.

Specification:

Culture & Values
Willing to develop a strong understanding of the causes and consequences of homelessness, poverty, inequality, and social exclusion. -
Essential
Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships. -
Essential
Flexible, kind, positive and enthusiastic approach, demonstrates our values. -
Essential

Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to draft polite, informative responses.
Essential
Ability to work to a brief, both independently and as part of a team.
Essential
Strong organisational and time management skills, working to deadlines, reporting outcomes, and stewarding new prospects. -
Essential
A good understanding of how to use social media.
Desirable
Public Speaking & presentation experience. -
Desirable

Experience
1-year minimum experience in marketing, communication, and/or sales.
Essential
Experience of using Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Essential
Experience within the charity sector.
Desirable
Experience of using databases and CRM systems.
Desirable

Salary:
£25,016.00 per year

Benefits: